Hi,

Thanks for the reply. How do I do that? Does it require a recompile of 
sysctl?

-John

On Tue, 24 May 2005, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 14:05 -0400, John wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have netbsd 1.6.2 on my beige g3. I also have a umax c500 running linux
> > with a 2.2.20 kernel. I've recently compiled a static povray binary on the
> > linux machine and wanted to see if it would run, with linux emulation,
> > on the netbsd machine. Unfortunately I get a "FATAL: kernel too old" error
> > message upon launching the binary, which doesn't make any sense because 
> > isn't the netbsd 1.6.2 kernel able to emulate a linux 2.2.x kernel? Any 
> > idea on how to solve this? 
> 
> Try setting the sysctl's emul.linux.kern.osrelease variable.  In my
> 3.0_BETA system, it holds the 2.4.18 value, but I think it can be
> manually changed.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>
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> 
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